In the project seminar "Project Planning of Extrusion Plants", which is offered annually at the KTP, the participating students have the opportunity to design a blow-moulding plant on the basis of plastics technology and business management considerations.
In a personal visit, District President Judith Pirscher informed herself about the activities to establish a plastics recycling institute at the University of Paderborn.
From left to right: Holger Plegge (Area Sales Manager, Arburg), Michael Sperling (Sales Consultant, Arburg), Elmar Moritzer (Professor of Plastics Technology), Matthias Hopp (Deputy Manager, Senior Engineer) (Picture taken in front of Corona)
For targeted university research and further development of the training of plastics engineers, Kunststofftechnik Paderborn, University of Paderborn, is getting a new electric injection moulding machine from Arburg, Lossburg.
Despite the ongoing Corona pandemic, the annual user meeting of the REX/PSI simulation software developed in Paderborn was held again this year - albeit digitally!
The SIGMA simulation software from Kunststofftechnik Paderborn is used to evaluate and improve processing on co-rotating twin-screw machines and was presented to the project partners on 3 March in its current version 12.1.
On 22 January 2020, two basic chemistry courses from the Pelizaeus-Gymnasium Paderborn visited Kunststofftechnik Paderborn as part of a student internship.
